cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605
A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.
Ok, that’s absolutely vile and reprehensible. But that’s not actually related to what occurred in this instance. The suspects told the police that they discussed breaking the law using FB messenger. Police made a legal search warrant to collect that data from Facebook. Facebook complied.
Capitalism or anti-abortionism doesn’t really enter the situation.
First off, capitalist power structures invented police - which means that everything police does is tied up with capitalism straight off the bat.
Second, just because something has been declared illegal does not make that thing immoral - and police doing something that is legal does not make the police any less inherently immoral. The fact that the police is doing the patriarchy’s bidding by policing women’s bodies in this way is about as immoral as it gets.
Third, you could argue that the women in question shouldn’t have admitted this information to the police in the first place - but that ignores the conditions under which these women were probably interrogated.
Fourth, capitalist institutions will inevitably always side with the power structures that protect the status quo - it doesn’t matter how many “Woman’s Day” marketing they put up… at the end of the day, they will side with the patriarchy and enable it’s violence - as you can see with the link I provided to you in my first response.